Young voters could have had Bernie this year (or in 2016) just by voting at the same rate as fifty-year-olds, and why they chose not to do it is a persistent political mystery. They turn out in enormous numbers to the rallies, but don't vote, even when voting is made very easy
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People are full of just-so stories about how the kids have classes to attend, and the lines for voting are 10 hours long, they don't have a steady address, and any other excuse you can mention, but this age pattern among *registered voters* holds true in vote-by-mail states too
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I imagine this must be incredibly frustrating to the young supporters who would move heaven and earth to win these votes, if they were available. But the bitter, bitter lesson in American politics is that they're called non-voters for a reason.
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that's what you get when the support is performative there's noone to pat you on the back in the voting booth
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